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Staking

Solana staking

What delegating actually paid, recovered from the rewards the chain issued rather than modelled from an inflation rate. Solana is the one chain measured here where that is possible: it publishes what every validator was paid, every epoch.

What the chain is paying

epoch 1020 · 1 epoch observed

Gross rate, measured

4.71%

Median of every payment the chain made

Gross rate, protocol

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Needs total supply, which this endpoint will not serve

Total staked

433.44MSOL

Share of supply unavailable

Cluster slots skipped

0.05%

Assigned slots that produced no block

The two gross rates are computed from inputs that share nothing. One is the median of every payment the chain actually made; the other is inflation multiplied by supply and divided by total stake. They agree, and that agreement is what makes either publishable — a single unexplained number would be worth no more here than it is anywhere else.

Rates are annualised at 182.6 epochs a year, from Solana’s 400 ms target slot time. No full epoch has been observed end to end yet; once one has, the measured length replaces the target. Real epochs run slightly longer, so this figure is if anything a little generous.

How the set is actually paid

751 validators

A single network rate says almost nothing about what a delegation pays, because the set it averages over is not shaped like a bell. These are the three distributions the headline hides.

What a delegation earns

Net annual return after commission, in whole per cent. The lowest column holds two different things — validators that pay a little, and validators that take the whole reward — so it is labelled rather than coloured.

01234

net APR, %

What validators charge

Commission is bimodal, not spread: most validators sit at one end or the other, so the average commission describes almost nobody.

01–56–91011–5051–99100

commission, %

Where the stake sits

Cumulative share of stake against validator count. Delegating to a validator already near the top of this curve is what makes it steeper.

a third0%50%100%110100Solana validators: the top 1 hold 3.9%Solana validators: the top 5 hold 15.2%Solana validators: the top 10 hold 23.9%Solana validators: the top 20 hold 34.6%Solana validators: the top 50 hold 54.2%Solana validators: the top 100 hold 71.4%Solana validators: the top 250 hold 87.9%Solana validators: the top 500 hold 97.2%Solana validators: the top 751 hold 100.0%

validators, cumulative

Every validator

6-epoch window

Ordered by what a delegation would have earned, after commission. A validator’s advertised rate is not what it pays: the two things that separate them are the commission they take and the share of their assigned slots they actually produce.

How to read a rate

  • Measured— Recovered from a payment the chain made to this validator
  • Derived— The cohort's measured rate with this validator's commission and block production applied
  • Pays nothing— Commission of 100%: every reward is taken before the delegator sees it

51–100 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
519xcXe4WRAf…7PeczT4.71%derived0%363K100.0Excellent
52FyrwfMaomE…JD6d4j4.71%derived0%357K100.0Excellent
539WzPWqKSqb…Wp28KR4.71%derived0%352K100.0Excellent
54Diman2GphW…diDZau4.71%derived0%339K100.0Excellent
55BEsnodYCgi…fRHUTG4.71%derived0%338K100.0Excellent
56D1Vbgkrhp1…R8QMC14.71%derived0%317K100.0Excellent
573WDh9HgusC…1Awo354.71%derived0%316K100.0Excellent
584XspXDcJy3…jmWWNy4.71%derived0%311K100.0Excellent
59gUvo3g5LfH…hwYqis4.71%derived0%308K100.0Excellent
60CEL22Qx7p8…ZdT8Ns4.71%derived0%303K100.0Excellent
619AW87WqARQ…NUXDPD4.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
62HT41udB8mL…iviXk54.71%derived0%302K100.0Excellent
639gFxqsXbFy…QoXrUJ4.71%derived0%299K100.0Excellent
64BULKzVM41W…xraf8b4.71%derived0%297K100.0Excellent
65BoNKmNCGvo…A4t5as4.71%derived0%284K100.0Excellent
66FNTPSUuRpD…YUfNRL4.71%derived0%282K100.0Excellent
67EQhTjikb1L…peM44W4.71%derived0%279K100.0Excellent
68qZMH9GWnnB…xDQrbP4.71%derived0%276K100.0Excellent
692mDrrmhSzp…iJDby24.71%derived0%274K100.0Excellent
70ALPHA6rdHZ…tZ1T7R4.71%derived0%265K100.0Excellent
71soLStaCk5T…826e9N4.71%derived0%253K100.0Excellent
72ETcW7iuVra…MPmXTc4.71%derived0%249K100.0Excellent
732gDeeRa3mw…r8uibX4.71%derived0%246K100.0Excellent
74PAWsME7oYb…r9YAZ64.71%derived0%228K100.0Excellent
75spcti6GQVv…mK4M5F4.71%derived0%227K100.0Excellent
76BeSovDCzhE…teNzXM4.71%derived0%226K100.0Excellent
77DViARWAWKk…wgVUKX4.71%derived0%224K100.0Excellent
788a4juhtQSc…GBnKu84.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
793s97yjq2Mh…vrQPw54.71%derived0%221K100.0Excellent
804b1onMDEas…eZUkck4.71%derived0%219K100.0Excellent
81grptonHnt7…CfzzPa4.71%derived0%218K100.0Excellent
82AsMpvJ3DZ2…tE1bWr4.71%derived0%215K100.0Excellent
83NordEHiwa6…2b6cv34.71%derived0%214K100.0Excellent
84svsD6T44XJ…y8Jsj34.71%derived0%213K100.0Excellent
85GwHH8ciFhR…5tBvji4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
86EdGevanA2M…EyE9hy4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
87ECZx4Dfyn2…bWgrdU4.71%derived0%209K100.0Excellent
882Gfd4mkMqD…zdaRwe4.71%derived0%208K100.0Excellent
89Ed9WjPnZfA…Fva2Zv4.71%derived0%207K100.0Excellent
90puffinQSvK…r1jsyy4.71%derived0%206K100.0Excellent
91THWsLPufeq…ztG8x14.71%derived0%201K100.0Excellent
929FXD1NXrK6…uDfm2e4.71%derived0%197K100.0Excellent
93ciTyjzN9iy…Er6cQj4.71%derived0%195K100.0Excellent
94H9ENbtmy2t…aG8L2T4.71%derived0%189K100.0Excellent
95popscoyTKV…MQopKu4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
968yjHdsCgx3…KJBqhN4.71%derived0%188K100.0Excellent
978GLRbAstsa…yofEz74.71%derived0%183K100.0Excellent
98sbidYi7fbi…sKqNux4.71%derived0%179K100.0Excellent
99CVRr5oHCAA…Vu8v8e4.71%derived0%177K100.0Excellent
1004VrjyXQT61…Lotq3n4.71%derived0%175K100.0Excellent
Take it awayCSV— Solana staking yieldsJSON— Solana staking yieldsevery validator, not only the filtered view

Rates are annualised from completed epochs. A measured rate is recovered from the payment the chain made to the validator's vote account; a derived rate is the cohort's own measured gross rate with this validator's commission and block production applied, used where no payment can be inverted — at zero commission there is nothing to invert.

How a rate is arrived at

Measured

The chain reports what it paid a validator’s vote account, which is that validator’s commission on its delegators’ rewards — not the rewards themselves. Those are paid straight into individual stake accounts and are not reported anywhere.

So the commission is divided back out. A validator charging 7% that was paid 351 SOL earned its delegators 351 ÷ 0.07 × 0.93 between them.

Derived, and why it is needed

Dividing by zero recovers nothing, and roughly half of Solana’s validators charge no commission at all — so for them there is no payment to invert. The same applies where a validator’s stake has changed so much since it was paid that the two figures no longer describe the same moment.

Those rows use the rate the rest of the cohort was measurably paid, with this validator’s own commission and block production applied — and they say so, on every row.

Neither figure includes MEV. Jito tips are distributed outside the protocol’s own reward mechanism and are not visible in what the chain reports here, so a validator running Jito may pay more than this page shows. It is not estimated here. Full methodology